Re: Johannes misbehavior in the wiki, and a request for admin rights (was: wiki "abuse")

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Felipe Contreras
[off-list ref] wrote:

I'm not going to go into details as why I think no warning was issued,
just that we need this:
https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/WikiIdeas#Allow_users_to_see_deleted_pages

Keep in mind that 99% of the unwanted crud that gets posted to a wiki
is spam and absolutely doesn't deserve a fair warning before it gets
deleted.  Just based purely on the list of usernames that was posted
earlier, it looked mainly like spammers to me.

If you want to implement a huge big process before deleting/banning
users, you'll want to be sure what you're getting into.

I personally don't think that anything that was done originally was
necessarily wrong, or that the wiki management itself needs to be
fixed.  If it were possible for people to simply look at deleted
pages, this thread would have been "Hey, you deleted me and it was
unwarranted!" -> Someone checks it out -> "No, it was warranted, don't
post swearwords to user pages" -> "Oops, sorry" -> Unbanned.

The thread went on as long as it did simply because verification was
impossible.  Don't over-repair the system and thus introduce new and
improved problems.

Have fun,

Avery